Tell me where you are and I will meet you there.

Garden Coaches listen to your ideas, dreams and goals. You share your journey, skills and challenges, and identify areas you want to grow in. This consultation is comprehensive and will give you the tools you need to begin with confidence to grow the garden you desire. We provide education, advice and support to our clients. We teach you how to achieve your goals in your space given the parameters in place. We never shame anyone for loving what they love, or wanting a special plant (or plants) in their garden. We are not purists here. We are educators and soil evangelists with only a few hard and fast rules we will teach you that all ecologists in this movement live by.

We offer:

kitchen garden designs

salad, herb, children’s gardens

native landscape design

one on one garden coaching sessions

community classes

Map out your Garden Coaching plan

At your consultation, you may decide you want a full or partial garden design, or guidance for a design you have created. We are able to help guide you through the whole process to get to your desired outcome.

Garden Design

Design phase is $75 per hour and entails initial visits, working design meetings and all design time. All gardens are different and goals differ, so there is no accurate estimate I can give for your project. I can tell you good work isn’t cheap and cheap work isn’t good. Expect a minimum of 10-15 hours of my time for your project, for the very smallest garden project.

Design Delivery In-person visit,  pre-paid $175, paid at the time of scheduling to deliver design plan and drawings.  Plan for 1-2 hours to go over plan in detail.

Garden Coaching

$60 per senior gardener per hour 

$45 per junior gardener per hour

$35 per intern per hour

Additional Services

Soil testing $20 per each additional test

Project management with your project $45 per hour

Delivery fee $20 plus mileage @ $.55 per mile for material sourcing 

Planting in amended soil, soil amending, lighter work $45 per hour

Site clearing, site prep, removal of foliage, heavy work $60 per hour

Seasonal cleanups, mulching and maintenance for existing clients $45 per hour plus materials

Grow your garden and keep it thriving!

Now that you have of a Garden Coach, a design and even a custom garden, what comes next?

Set up weekly gardening coaching sessions to work together, or an occasional session to answer specific questions Plan ahead and get us on the schedule for maintenance around the seasons. We can help you understand how to overwinter your garden, cut the garden back in the spring, and learn about the wildlife that depends on the decisions you make.

Garden Coaching sessions- 60 min- for existing clients $60- this is intensive side by side work in the garden. We work together and we teach you and show you how to get the best outcomes for your space and within the parameters your space provides.

Seasonal mulching, cleanups and maintenance $45 per hour plus materials

Teaching what we love

We teach classes and workshops for group settings in libraries, schools, professional organizations, businesses, garden clubs and private groups.

Classes $200 per 60-90 minute class in person or zoom

Classes taught in 2022:

Traditional Seed Sowing

Soil Health and its Critical Importance to our World

Advanced Gardening Techniques

Natives vs. Nativars vs. Cultivars

Winter Sowing 101

Compost and Soil Amendments for your Garden

Restoring habitats and ecosystems the Wild Child Way

Share the message so it may grow

We have the great privilege of partnering with several non-profit organizations to spread the message about pollinator education in our community here in Pittsburgh, PA. We also champion the ecological movement to help restore ecosystems and native habitats by shouting out vendors of choice who walk the walk.

Our founder/owner, Miriam Cheng, donates a percentage of our profits from all classes and native landscape installations to these efforts, plus time and classes to the community.

You can too! Look at these organizations, donate your time and energy, and share the message!

Wild Ones Plant It Further Turtle Creek Watershed Association Home Grown National Park Wildbird Recovery Mt. Lebanon Nature Conservancy

We are passionate advocates for sustainability, as we are all wild children, to protect the ecosystems we belong to.